6600gt or go 6600? Very mysterious problem. Help!

[josephk]

6600gt or go 6600? Mysterious problem.

Or are they the same, and I'm paranoid?

So, today I ran to my local gpu-pusher and invested in a inno3d geforce 6600gt.. Or so I thought, and maybe it is, it says so on the box :/

I'm somewhat suspicious of the inno3d company as I've never heard about them, but the card was cheap and passed cursory inspection, so I bought it.

Anyway, this might be me being stupid and not knowing that they're all called "go 6600" or something, but I got a bit suspicious when I looked at the nvidia display and saw the name "GeForce go 6600" where I was sure it should say GeForce 6600 gt.

This is a cut and paste from nvidia display.

Processor: GeForce Go 6600
Video BIOS version: 5.43.02.80
IRQ: 19
Bus: PCI express x16

More strangeness ensued as this card is most definately an AGP card.

This made me run directx diagnostics, here is what dxdiag says.

Name: NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce Go 6600


Well, the name is the right one.. But the chipset seems off.. Unless all 6600gts run on a "go 6600" chip type? And I'm just ignorant?


Anyway, then I ran sisofts sandra and sure enough, sandra says.

Model: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Chipset: GeForce Go 6600


And msinfo which says.

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Adapter type: GeForce Go 6600, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter description: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT



Again with the "go 6600" strangeness. I further downloaded coolbit to check the clock frequencies and they're at 500/1000 mghz.. Which is again weird, as this is an AGP card, from a lowend producer, I was fairly sure that only the top of the line manufactures made 500/1000 for the 6600gts(and the rest 400/900 or something), when it's set to "overclocking off". I'm not sure how exactly coolbit works, if it actually measures the mghz or if it just reads them off the card?

Anyway, looking for any help you can give.. Especially I hope, that I'm overly paranoid and it's perfectly normal. Perhaps there is some program out there which could test it for sure? 3dMark perhaps?

Just so you know, my drivers are the latest 81.98 forceware driverne for my 6600gt(maybe?) and my motherboard drivers are the nforce 5.11 (mobo is Asus K8N nForce3 250)

Any help appreciated.

JosephK

 

[cleeve]

If it has a 6600 GPU, and it's running at 500/1000, it's a 6600 GT.

Clockspeed and chipset (6600) makes the GT.

 

[josephk]

Hm.. Alright..

I guess it's a 6600 gt then.. Kinda weird with the pci-e 16x though :/ And well.. All I've been able to figure out about the "go 6600" is that it is used in laptops.

It seems it's almost the same chipset as the "normal" 6600 there are differences though (clockspeed, fillrate and memory bandwith).

( link http://www.bit-tech.net/feature/75/ )



I guess if my card has the 500/1000 clock (as coolbit says), I'm in the clear.. Even if it says "GeForce Go 6600" instead of "GeForce 6600 GT" everywhere I still find it very strange though.

 

[cleeve]

Chipset is the chip. In the case of the 6600, it is an 8-pipeline chip.

Fillrate and memory bandwith are results of the clockspeeds paired with that chip. If you change the clockspeeds, you change fillrates and bandwidth.

A 6600 non-GT with 8 pipes at 6600 GT clockspeeds will give the exact same performance as a 6600 GT chip at those speeds.

The '6600 go' you've seen in the driver info is pretty much meaningless, pay it no heed.

 

[MTLink]

^ What he said

Why Inno3D though? I have a few of their cards and they're all loud as hell, and hot too. That's why I try to stick with big-name manufacturers like XFX and Asus now.

 

[josephk]

Thanks guys, I was just being paranoid I guess. I did test the card in 3dMark05 and scored just around 3400 marks at stock speeds. Seems about right(if not a little high) for a 6600gt. Especially considering my substandard rig (sempron 2600+ and 768mb ram)


Why inno3d? Cheapest one I could find.. It is a bit noisy though, although not overmuch.. My stock amd-cpu fan is louder, so no loss


JosephK